Events
February 21, 2025
Women, Their Allies, and Philosophy at the Claremont Colleges Luncheon
Discussion led by Professor Zoë Johnson King, Harvard University
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m., Pearsons 202, Â鶹ӰÊÓ
Summer Programs
The summer institutes listed below are designed to encourage undergraduates (and in some cases recent graduates) from underrepresented groups to consider future study of philosophy. Underrepresented groups in philosophy include women, African Americans, Chicano/as and Latino/as, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, LGBTQ+s, economically disadvantaged communities, and people with disabilities.
- through Summer Research - Early Identification Program
Resources on Diversity and Inclusiveness in Philosophy
- The American Philosophical Association (APA) has put together
- aims to examine and dismantle mechanisms that prevent students from marginalized groups from participating in academic philosophy
Blogs and Websites
- hosted by the APA
- hosted by the APA
- aims to "enrich and reinvigorate the philosophical canon, focusing on the early modern period (roughly 1560-1810)"
News Stories
Newsletters, Articles​, and Books
- Sally Haslanger, Hypatia 23 (2008): 210-223.
- Molly Paxton, Carrie Figdor and Valerie Tiberius, Hypatia 27 (2012): 949–957.
- Wesley Buckwalter and Stephen Stich, In Joshua Knobe & Shaun Nichols (eds.), Experimental Philosophy, Vol 2. Oxford University Press, 2013. 307-346.
- The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women. Eds. Rebecca Buxton and Lisa Whiting (Unbound, 2020).
- Carlin Romano, America the Philosophical (Vintage, 2013).
Past Events
April 27, 2024
We will attend the organized by the Society for Women in Philosophy, Pacific Division (PSWIP) at Mount Saint Mary’s University.
September 30, 2022
Women and Philosophy Luncheon
Discussion led by Professor Rachel Barney, University of Toronto
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Stanley Patio, Â鶹ӰÊÓ
October 1, 2021
Women and Philosophy Luncheon
Discussion led by Professor Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Stanley Patio, Â鶹ӰÊÓ
September 20, 2019
Women and Philosophy Luncheon
Agency, Power, and Social Justice
Discussion led by Professor Sally Haslanger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12 p.m. - 1:15 p.m., Pearsons 202
May 2, 2019
Women and Philosophy Luncheon
A conversation about Agreeing to Unwanted Sex
Discussion led by Stavroula Glezakos (Wake Forest University) and Julie Tannenbaum (Â鶹ӰÊÓ)
November 1, 2018
Women and Philosophy Luncheon
Love - Discussion led by Ellie Anderson, Pitzer College
February 23, 2018
Women and Philosophy Hike
4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
We are headed to
October 25, 2017
Epistemic Injustice
Women and Philosophy Luncheon
April 3, 2017
Women and Philosophy Luncheon
Using philosophy in the workplace
Discussion led by Tamara Zakim (Pomona Alumnus)
November 18, 2016
Women and Philosophy Luncheon
​Discussion led by Sarah Stroud, McGill University
February 18, 2016
Women and Philosophy Luncheon
Who is the Parent? A discussion of how parental responsibility is incurred and transferred
Discussion led by Professor Rivka Weinberg, Scripps College
October 23, 2015
Women and Philosophy Luncheon​
Identity-in-Difference to Avoid Indifference
Discussion led by Professor Emily Lee, California State University, Fullerton
February 20, 2015
Women and Philosophy Luncheon
Moral Reasons to Imagine the Experience of Others
Discussion led by Professor Adrienne Martin, Claremont McKenna College
October 25, 2014
Women and Philosophy Hike
Meet at Pearsons Hall, south entrance
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April 24, 2014
Women and Philosophy Luncheon
Discussion led by Professor Helga Varden, University of Illnois at Urbana-Champaign
November 24, 2013
Women and Philosophy Hike
Meet at Pearsons Hall, south entrance
We are headed to
March 31, 2012
Women and Philosophy Hike
Meet at Pearsons Hall, south entrance
We are headed to
February 16, 2012
Women and Philosophy Discussion
Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy
Discussion moderated by Pomona undergraduates Ruiwen Huang, Rebecca Raible, and Emi Young
February 10, 2011
Pre-Valentine’s Day Get Together
Â鶹ӰÊÓ, Smith Campus Center, Rm 201
September 16, 2011
Women and Philosophy Luncheon
Discussion led by Professor Stavroula Glezakos, Wake Forest University
Oct 28, 2010
Inaugural Women and Philosophy at the 5Cs
Dinner Get Together
Â鶹ӰÊÓ, Smith Campus Center, Rm 201